Metaheuristic Intelligence Approach for Sentimental Analysis.- Exploring The Potential Of Combining Mel Spectorgrams With Neural Networks For Acoustic Speed Violation Detection.- Machine Learning-based Music Recommendation System from Spotify.- Analysis of Viral And Non-Viral Categories of Video Through Social Media Using Machine Learning Techniques.

This book presents 52 selected papers focused on Information Retrieval and Applications from the 14th International Conference on Soft Computing and Pattern Recognition (SoCPaR 2023) and 14th World Congress on Nature and Biologically Inspired Computing (NaBIC 2023). SoCPaR – NaBIC 2023 was held in 5 different cities namely Olten, Switzerland; Porto, Portugal; Kaunas, Lithuania; Greater Noida, India; Kochi, India and in online mode. The conference had contributions by authors from 39 countries. This Volume offers a valuable reference guide for all scientists, academicians, researchers, students and practitioners focused on Information Retrieval and Applications.